Our research
The department of European Cultures and Languages brings together a community of scholars with shared interests in interdisciplinary topics and transnational phenomena, covering French- and German-speaking cultures from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
Particular research themes pursued by staff in this department include:
- Research in aesthetics and media
- Research in histories and philosophies
- Research in community and identities
- Find out more about our staff research interests.
If you are interested in doing a PhD with us in any of these areas, email postgraduate@sllc.bbk.ac.uk
An interdisciplinary research centre, Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (BRAKC), directed by two members of the Department, attracts colleagues from across the School of Arts, from other Birkbeck Schools and from the wider academic community.
Just as BRAKC attracts colleagues from across the School and from other schools, so we participate in a variety of interdisciplinary research and teaching ventures, which include:
- film studies
- postcolonial studies
- museum studies
- Renaissance studies
- 18th- and 19th-century studies
The Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Group is co-ordinated by two members of the department, together with two members of staff from other departments in the School of Arts (English & Humanities, and History of Art).
